On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:58:18AM -0800, Christopher Lyon wrote: > I have a bunch of RH8.0 machines that are sitting in Telco closets and > was wondering if I am digging myself a hole with these things powering > on and off without using the shutdown command. Am I going to kill or > break something but basically just unplugging these machines?
If you power down the machine while there are dirty buffers, you might lose data to filesystem corruption. A journalling filesystem might help you, but you could still lose data to dirty buffers. There is also the issue of apps which need to save memory data to disk at shutdown. You are better off issuing the shutdown command to power down a machine. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Av. Kennedy 5757, of. 1502 Ingeniero de Sistemas Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Virtualia S.A. Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763
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